Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Collaboration Presentation

Participant Pragmatic Panorama
features Jim Campbell and Jeffrey Shaw

Both digital artists deal with audience interaction but go about it in different ways. Jim Campbell is more controlling when it comes to how the viewer is going to interact with the virtual world. He almost always has set choices for the participant to make; therefore, their final destination is already determined by him beforehand. Where as, Shaw lets the audience interact with the piece however they choose to do so. The viewer nor does Shaw know what their actions will result exactly.


http://www.iamas.ac.jp/interaction/i01/works/E/jim.html
http://framework.v2.nl/archive/archive/leaf/other/.xslt/nodenr-69351
http://www.jeffrey-shaw.net/html_main/frameset-works.php3
http://www.jimcampbell.tv/
http://vv.arts.ucla.edu/terminals/t1/ucsc/campbell/campbell.html
http://www.ackland.org/art/exhibitions/illuminations/image1.htm
http://mfj-online.org/journalPages/MFJ37/JimCampbell.htm

Word Visualization

Career Pictogram - Tattoo Artist

Self Visualization Collage

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Parable of the Garden


Parable of the Garden was a new media exhibit which displayed art from Iran and Central Asia. Students had to curate the exhibit and show how the pieces responded to the culture. Shahram Entekhabi work deals with immigrant identities in other places and was one artist who's was featured in the exhibit. His artwork was entitled Happy Meal and it was video which was thirteen minutes long. The video consists of a Muslim girl eating a McChicken Happy Meal in a German McDonald. The girl is wearing a chador, which is a open cloak worn by some female Iranians. As you watch the delighted child devour the sandwich you look past the foreigner status and just see a child. Once she has finished eating the sandwich she tries to open the Happy Meal toy and you see how the chador hinders her ability to do this simple task easily. After a while she places the toy under her chador and tries to open it that way. It is then that you only see her expression on her face as she struggles to get the toy open. After a while she finally succeeds and you see the joy on her face before you even see the toy. Entekhabi explores how the the culture of the immigrants is brought with them from home and how others perceive it.